{"id":3071,"date":"2011-07-07T22:56:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T22:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=3071"},"modified":"2011-07-07T22:56:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T22:56:44","slug":"touraine-sauvignon-blanc-seems-to-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/sauvignon-blanc\/touraine-sauvignon-blanc-seems-to-rock","title":{"rendered":"Touraine Sauvignon Blanc seems to rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMGP0311.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3076\" title=\"IMGP0311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMGP0311.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMGP0311.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMGP0311-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMGP0311-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMGP0311-400x224.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Been very impressed with the recent Touraine Sauvignon Blancs I&#8217;ve tried. The Loire fights back! Here are three that I&#8217;ve enjoyed over the last couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>Famille Bougrier Touraine Sauvignon Blanc 2010 Loire<br \/>\nVery fresh, precise and lively with lovely grapefruit and citrus character. Precise with a real zip to it. Nicely aromatic with good acidity and real intensity. 90\/100 (Laithwaites stock the previous vintage in the UK, at \u00a310 a bottle)<\/p>\n<p>Chateau de Fontenay Le Sauvignon Touraine 2010 Loire<br \/>\nVery fresh, bright, pure and grassy with lively citrus and herb notes on the palate. Assertive and bright with some mineral notes. Fresh and balanced. 89\/100<\/p>\n<p>Domaine Mesliand Touraine Sauvignon La Pindorgie 2010 Loire<br \/>\nFine and expressive with a nose of ripe pear and citrus with some fine herby notes. The palate has grapefruit and peach notes, with some minerality. Lively and fresh with real personality. 90\/100<\/p>\n<p>Find these wines with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/index.lml?referring_site=WAN\" target=\"_blank\">wine-searcher.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been very impressed with the recent Touraine Sauvignon Blancs I&#8217;ve tried. The Loire fights back! Here are three that I&#8217;ve enjoyed over the last couple of days. Famille Bougrier Touraine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,81,16],"tags":[386,355],"class_list":["post-3071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-loire","category-sauvignon-blanc","tag-loire","tag-sauvignon-blanc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3077,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions\/3077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}